“Porn is Slowly Killing Evangelicalism” by Grayson Gilbert, Evangelical Patheos: June 12, 2018. “Of Rats, Voles and Online Porn” by Declan Gernon, Areo, February 12, 2019. “Does Empathy Have A Dark Side?” by Jonathan Lambert, NPR, April 12, 2019. Full-page ads in the Christian Right’s World magazine carry stats on “pornography and the church”, alleging…
Talking Across the Divide by Justin Lee, (Penguin, 2018), 259 pp. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Self-righteousness is the most desperate of motivations as it’s internally sensed to be the least defensible. There’s no limit to the ruthlessly irrational lengths to which many resort to rationalize their postured, sanctimonious rhetoric, resistance, rebellion…
Liberty — therefore Gratitude, Humility & Patience The 16th Annual Columbus Day Weekend of Evangelicals Concerned Ocean Grove, New Jersey, October 5-7, 2018 Three Centennials on Christian Liberty, 1918 – 2018 Gardner C. Taylor, Billy Graham & Aleksandre Solzhenitsyn Dr. Ralph Blair’s Centennials Lecture and his Three Sermons for the Occasion (PDF version available here.)…
“Colorado Defies the Supreme Court, Renews Persecution of a Christian Baker” by David French, National Review, August 15, 2018. “Identifying the Sin of Sodom in Ezekiel 16:49-50” by Brian Neal Peterson, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, June 2018. by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) Ina Duley Ogdon was disappointed when plans for…
Gifted to Give by Ralph Blair 1993 (PDF version available here.) Ralph Blair is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. He founded Evangelicals Concerned in 1976. This booklet is an expanded version of Dr. Blair’s keynote address at connECtion 1993, the summer conferences of Evangelicals Concerned, which were held in Pennsylvania…
by Ralph Blair 1977 (PDF version available here.) “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” Galatians 5 FROM LEGALISTIC PERSECUTION… In the name of God, negative response to homosexuals over the years has ranged from killing to ridicule, always with…
by Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here.) From Whence Cometh Our Help? is Dr. Blair’s keynote address at the 25th annual eastern and western connECtions of Evangelicals Concerned, in the summer of 2004. Once upon a time there was a psychologist who had never matured beyond the use of inkblots. One day he was…
by Ralph Blair “Gifted with GOD’s Way as Our Way!” is Dr. Ralph Blair’s Keynote at the 78th EC Summer ConnECtion, June 1-3, 2018 at The Kirkridge Retreat Center atop the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania. (For PDF version click here.) Who knows folks who think everything needs to go their way? Anyone come to mind? …
“Mississippi Church Pushes Back Against History of Racism” by Zoe Erler, byFaith, Q1.18; “A Mouthful of Bluff” by Joel Belz, World magazine, April 14, 2018; “Look Out. Christianity Will Soon be Labeled ‘Hate Speech’ ” by David Rupert, Red Letter Believers: Salt and Light, at Patheos’ Evangelical channel, April 16, 2018; “Did Evangelicals ‘Kidnap’ the…
(PDF version available here) Following his death, Billy Graham was honored with a special issue of Christianity Today, the flagship evangelical periodical he founded in 1956. CT recognizes that, “the forces gathered and unleashed at the Berlin, Lausanne, and Amsterdam meetings [initiated by Graham] constitute a third worldwide ecumenical movement, every bit as important as…